"Richard Calthrop an officer of the Royal Navy, who gallantly fought and
fell in defence of Christian Liberty on the dreadful but ever memorable
attack upon Algiers on the 27th day of August 1816 aged 23 years. He went
to sea at the early age of thirteen and after eight years spent in the
most active service during which period he had been in several partial but
severe engagements went out upon promotion as an Admiralty Midshipman on
board the Leander in the above expedition. In this ship carrying 56 guns
he had the command of the small arms party and almost at the conclusion of
that tremendous engagement and when it raged with its utmost fury, as he
was animating the seamen to exertions against the most ferocious enemies
of mankind, a fatal ball severed his head from his body and thus perished
in religion's holy cause this promising and intrepid youth without a pang
and in the very glowing moment of victory.
From a respect to his many manly virtues this sacred stone is here erected
by an affectionate mother and ten surviving brothers and sisters."